The chapter opens with a flashback to the beginning of the marriage contract. The narrator explains that the contract is just a set of rules that a young woman should be aware of when she becomes a mistress of a rich man. The rules are just a way of making sure that the young woman is aware of what she is supposed to do in marriage. The young woman protests that she can only do one thing in the contract, but the master has 274 rules for her to obey. He asks her to reread the contract so that he can make sure that she obeys all of the rules. She agrees to do so. He tells her that he will give her some time to think things over and that she will rebel and ruin things if she does not obey. She says that she needs to study the contract. He gives her a lift for two hours and then tells her to read it. He says that now that he has figured out what her desires are, everything will be easy to control and he will let her do what she wants. He promises that she won't rebel or ruin everything now that she has figured it out. He then